Introduction Presenteeism is defined as continuing to attend work during illness. As a
growing health concern, awareness of the factors that encourage presenteeism and the risks …

Background Chronic pain is distressing for patients and a burden on healthcare systems
and society. Recent research demonstrates different aspects of the negative impact of …

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving from the Crohn's Disease Activity Index
to patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and objective measures of disease, such as findings …

This study aims to extract and explain the territorially varied relation between socioeconomic
factors and absence rate from work due to own illness or disability in European countries in …

Purpose: To assess the effect of dry eye disease on work productivity and performance of
non–work-related activities, and patients' satisfaction with over-the-counter (OTC) dry eye …

Background: Little is known about the work productivity loss in multiple sclerosis (MS).
Objectives: To quantify the MS-related work productivity loss and to compare factors …

Objective To investigate possible predictors for lack of pain improvement after 1 year of
treatment for early rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods The Early Rheumatoid Arthritis …

Osteoarthritis (OA) may be associated with substantial work disability, morbidity, costs, and
increased mortality rates, often similar to rheumatoid arthritis (RA), documented in many …

Background Discordance between patient and physician ratings of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
severity occurs in clinical practice and correlates with pain scores and measurements of joint …

Background: Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID), such as inflammatory bowel
disease (IBD), multiple sclerosis (MS), and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), are highly prevalent in …